Suppose I have a Pack/Unpacked EBCDIC file (.upd), what's the easist
way to convert it to an ASCII file (.dat)? Do I need a conversion
table and everything, or can I just do it with a simple Reader/Writer
in Java and do it per byte?? Also, I will have a copybook file to help
me convert & unpack. Please let me know if you have any suggestions!
Thanks lots!

Re: dot-quote implementation question... Then you don't need a DOVAR or a DCON ~ because when you define ... it will have a DOCREATE in it. ... Currently, I use decimal in the ASCII file, although I do prefer hex. ...conversion routine replaces the xt of the bootstrap literal ...(comp.lang.forth)

Re: cat & ASCII conversion... > I ftp an ASCII file from unix to the AS400 IFS, do a 'cat myfile' and see ... > the contents of the file, translated to EBCDIC, apparently by cat....CCSID conversion support embedded in ILE interfaces for reading/writing ... Using stdin redirection MIGHT avoid conversion (and will generally be more ...(comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc)

Re: convert ASCII to EBCDIC... we use the dd command to convert a ASCII file to EBCDIC. ...conversion we ftp this file to a mainframe for further use of it. ... Why not just let the ftp to the mainframe convert from ascii to ebcdic? ...(comp.unix.aix)